Souths Till I Die
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playing pretty well considering penriths first try was not a try and their second was soft.
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Easy work. Enjoy Mad Monday.
Enjoy the win mate you deserve it but remember Luai and Kikau were grubbing it up all night so have a look in your own backyard too mate.
Mitchell like Walker are myths- both go missing in the big games when needed
This comment didn't age well..Dylan was enormous tonight
And a 3rd GF on a row!!!
Not today merkin.. not today!
Well said R20 as Murray played himself to a standstill….
No falling over..Smug at a near Max capacity..
Suck a fart Dragons supporter..battle of the West coming up..
He was so bad!!
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Penrith have won 20+ or more regular season contests for 3 consecutive seasons. That's quite remarkable in itself kudos to the players. Coversely, this is our squad's fifth consecutive QGF/Final, a huge achievement too. Further our playoff form has been clearly at the summit: two game averaging 34 ppg and conceeding only 13ppg. Against Easts, we had 11 men for 20 minutes as Cooper Cronk has rightly emphasized. Yet Easts were probably the form side entering the post-season and many saw them as the only possible danger to Iron Man. Hence that V there was highly meritorious, though there were costs incurred. Perhaps too little has been spoken about that performance.
Looking at the post-season contests a year ago, we have every chance given Mitchell's absence and the fact Penrith scored 6 points from a 45 yard pick. In those two epic play off contests the aggregate score was in Souths' favour 28-24. That's extremely difficult to do given Penrith's lofty stature and capability. Further, in the last meeting, yes Penrith missed their two halves but the rest were there [save Fishhead] BUT we should have piled 30 or more on Penrith and Mitchell was nowhere near 100%. Again, that is very difficult to do against such an elite squad.
My conclusion is that we have every chance to sink Penrith provided 1. The players are not significantly damaged physically 2. The quantum of enforced errors and turnovers are minimised. Should we continually turnover Iron Man's high punts its done, no squad could survive that. He was however neutralised in the final SOO game so it can be done.
Tactics should be to target Iron Man from the get go and put him off. If the guy is comfortable and his forwards dominate we may as well Jeter L'eponge. Penrith for all their winning has a very simple formula. Imtimidate and asphixiate the opponent in their tight corner and wait for their errors. However empirical evidence in recent post-season contests has shown that we know how to play and beat them. Provided conditions 1 & 2 listed above are given a tick, then this is a tight, close struggle, much closer that what is generally argued. And if so, the maligned outsider can triumph. Gasperini did it against the "special one" Mourhino, Dallas did it against Joe Burrow when totally written off. It CANWinning hypocrites..And didn't it cause a stir amonst the Penruff merkins when I suggested last year the Su'a be used as cannon fodder and speared into to target the shoulder, back and jaw of the Chin...
Hypocrites.....
